Cecilia Malmstrom, the European Union's trade commissioner

BRUSSELS, May 7. /TASS/. Trilateral ministerial talks on Ukraine’s association agreement with the European Union will take place later this month, Cecilia Malmstrom, the European Union's trade commissioner, said on Thursday.

Malmstrom stressed that the European Commission had no intention of delaying the implementation of its free-trade pact with Ukraine, citing European Commission head Jean-Claude Juncker as saying that the trade deal between Ukraine and the EU was expected to come into force from January 1, 2016.